The Church & Body of Christ
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Community Life
Sep 18 The Third Silence: Paul Stops Disruptive Speech Without Erasing Women's Voices 1 Corinthians 14:34-35
Paul's third σιγάω is church-order restraint in a disordered assembly — not a gag-order on half the body, and not a verse you can dismiss because it offends.
May 10 The Shape of the First Church: Devotion as Structural Architecture, Not Spiritual Mood Acts 2:42-44
Luke doesn't describe what the early church felt — he describes what they did, and the grammar reveals a community operating under apostolic authority with economic radicalism that would terrify most modern congregations.